Isolated

So I am a proud Gorean. I have my own island, I enjoy the beauty of Gor, I enjoy the company of my Sisters, I enjoy the people who come and visit me.

A world of beauty. I should be content.

There is something like 600 sims of Gor in Second Life’s 16000 sims. I don t know them. I know about 5 gorean sims, including the Gor Hub.

So I walk. Want to see more. I walk and go to another place…weeeeee it’s beautiful here by the looks of it? So I leave the docks and am met by a shooting runner. Ok, I m not wanted here. I leave.

I visit another dock…read the rules…as soon as I enter roleplay the safety of the docks is gone?...”Tal Panther” the man with the blade in his hand says. I leave without a word.
The next sim…Kurii…Kurii???...They eat humans right? I don t even go down. The next is a city. I will not wear a veil.

Isolated.

Our sim rules sound like a threat, not like rules. You can be captured, mutilated, whatever…I read my own sim rules. I think I should rewrite my sim rules, my sim rules are as forbidding as all of them.

“Welcome on an island of beauty! It is here for you to enjoy with me! Join the fun, experience life on a planet without pollution, be One with Nature, One with yourself and see the beauty of our gorean lands!”

But not now. I took a job in a club, they have great music and DJ s, people are happy. I host, I welcome people...I love it! I am my inviting self again, my welcoming self and try to make everyone happy! So much me, I am not responsible here, and I can help and support, its me, it's a great club! I prefer to not be responsible. It sets me free. In my rl I’m a lone mom ALWAYS responsible, weeeeeeeeeeeee I DANCE I whirl I laugh and smile!

On coming back home, I ponder. I once fled to Gor to be myself?! What is missing here? I need my sim, on no other place of gor I would be welcome: 598 sims wasted (598 just in case: I made an exception for YOURS, goreans LOVE to argue!)

Gor is not welcoming. Goreans like to attack, to FORCE you to do something you never came for. Instead of a greeting you meet hisses and snarls if you are lucky. If not you meet arrows, risk being entangled in some roleplay you never aimed for, and don t DARE to try n be yourself, we have RULES, we are not DISNEY or anything? and here s your ban! Thank you.

I found out that Disney is my Personality. Call me Daisy, please.

I have 135 members in my tribe. Do I? I think I have 5 Members in my tribe, the rest left Gor to whatever places. Why was I unable to keep them interested? Was I not welcoming enough, not helpful enough? Or was my sim not gorean enough? No, that is not the case. They left Gor.

Gor. It shuts us out. No need for 598 sims that don’t welcome anyone anyways. Try different places, try places of beauty where you are welcomed and where someone is happy that you join in.

Gor has massive problems: Sims suffer for not having enough traffic, some say we have too many sims: Is that not a declaration of bankruptcy? We have too many sims? We do not. We FAIL in making people welcome on Gor!

Remember the Gor Hub. That place with the map of Gor. It became a hangout. One of the RARE places on Gor that welcomes people!!! Fabien, YOU understood what Gor does so wrong!! And you are rewarded with MASSIVE traffic! People feel good in your Hub, they talk, they socialize. Happy Gor! Go to Fabiens Hub, forget the Rest.

People build vast fortresses. A fortress can look good, but what I see is fortresses with locked doors. Why? Are you afraid? Afraid of what? A fortress with locked doors is stupid. A scripted item that removes anyone who is not on the access list is easier. It will guarantee that you do not have unwelcome people with you. A fortress with locked doors…symbol of shutting people out. It’s the reason why gor will never succeed. Open them! Open your doors, unroll a red carpet that leads into the sim!

The model of Gor is not being given a chance ever with the way it is mismanaged. Its not your fault, roleplayer. It’s the summary of mass management failures. Failing to welcome people. There is Thassa…ok, 597 sims remain that don t welcome anyone.

Sim Owners send out notes, seeking for roleplayers to populate their sims. On reading the rules you become aware they don t. We are a BtB sim. BtB? Does that translate into me not being allowed to be myself? To play a set role? Great if it pays as a job for an actress, I apply. To my disappointment they don t pay actors well.

Isolated. People act BtB roles.

Once upon a time, online Gor was meant to liberate you from the restrictions of our modern times world. Our Online Gor mutated into the most unwelcoming places in Second Life. Don t DARE to bring in your personality! It may not be by the books if you feel mercy! Remember, Gor MUST be a harsh place!! Must it be?

Oh the books are so vastly misinterpretated! Do you really think the Vikings were battling all the time? They would soon be extinct.

A Kajira may want to be Kajira in Online Gor. Its nice to be cared for. A lot of them forget that CARE is not a one way road. And when their Owner walks away and leaves them at home it serves her right. Kajirae are a sim Owners Kajirae. THEY have the capacity to welcome people, to keep people on the sim.

They most often don’t. Instead they greet politely and kneel and are silent. Waiting for orders.

Dolls

We have good schools for kajirae in many places. We teach them to serve, to dance, to greet, to dress properly. And then? Hey you are taught? Now be ACTIVE??...they don t. they kneel. Its what they learnt. A kajira has EVERY means in her hands to seduce. And the result? pussies and breasts flashing from every girl. How boring. Gor is full of naked bodies, who cares for another pussy. No one wants to drag a doll on a chain behind? I grew up, I did not have a toy on a leash since I’m 4.

Isolated.

In more than one sense. Sometimes its better to dream than to try it out and let the dream be ruined.

I should write new sim rules. Tomorrow. Or the day after. Maybe.

1 sim of 600. 0.2% of Gor. In terms of Traffic a lot less. Gor, is it really needed that I conform? No one forces my hand! I have my own sim, I set the rules myself?!
I will WELCOME people, and try to make everyone to feel good! Tear down walls and stupid rules. Check everything and test it if it is truly needed.

You call yourself ‘Master’? Enjoy your kink, have a seat, like some vulo soup? You want to kneel and call yourself kajira? Enjoy your kink, have a seat, like some vulo soup? I’m ok if you flash your nakedness at me, I can look into my bathroom mirror and see the real thing, nothing really exotic for me to see on you.

You are a panther shooting panthers? Great, tell me of your adventures! Did you find love?

You are a slaver, hunting for prey? I m sure thousands would kiss your feet if they knew. Go and look for those. You are invited to a vulo soup. Tell me what you are on Gor for.

Gor is a themed roleplay world. There are different roles to enjoy. But Gor welcomes no one. Wherever you go, you meet enmity. Roleplayers who try to take your fun, Sim Admins who administrate badly composed rules that invariably lead to drama, Sim Owners who don t have a philosophy but paste and copy rules.

I want to be myself. That’s what I once upon a time came to Gor for. Its my choice to make it better. Its my choice to create my roleplay world to my content. I will. If you enjoy my sim, be welcome. How stupid I am that I did not start earlier.

© Larah Oh